On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:31:15 -0000, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 17, 10:25 am, Tino Wildenhain <t...@wildenhain.de> wrote:> [[int(x) for x in line.split()] for line in open("blob.txt")]Nice (python code). Few comments: • the above code is borderline of atypical. e.g. it is not a average python code would produce or one'd seen in corporate python code.
I can't imagine why not. It's clean and clear, after all. If I needed to do the slightly odd processing that it's written to do, the only change I'd make for production code is to wrap the file object in a 'with' statement.
• voodoo like the above makes me dislike python. To me, the one advantage of python is its clarity enforced by its syntax. Specifically, the forced indendation and quite simple semantics. However, the way i've seen Guido's propensities and how python 3 is moving to, it is becoming more mumbo jumbo of computer sciency OOP jargons with syntax soup. (with iterators, enumerators, list comprehension... shits forced upon the users) The above line illustrate well the ad hoc syntax soup nature python is moving into.
To a native English speaker, it illustrates entirely the reverse. List comprehension is actually quite a linguistically natural way to express the iterative construction of a list. -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
